Underwhelming E3 coverage by the media?

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#1 WillieBeamish
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Personally, I think the media coverage sucks. Microsoft has been known for its high quality "Bringing it home" programs on Xbox Live, but they have been rather lackluster 'snapshots' or 'highlights' of what happened during the press conference..

Then all the media outlets have crappy, small and/or grainy quality videos of the conferences and even have poor audio quality.. There is a real lack of actual gameplay video, and what IS available is either choppy, dark, grainy or blurry.

Where is the high def fable 2 gameplay video?

When is the high def Gears gameplay video?

Where are the high quality LBP gameplay videos?

where are the in-depth developer interviews?

I dunno, seems like the game media are complaining about a somewhat lackluster E3, but they have no room to talk when their coverage of it sucks even worse.

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#2 jeffwulf
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Probally because E3 was made a business conference 2 years ago, instead of the Gaming Mecca that it was every year before that.
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#3 WillieBeamish
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Still, Gamespot, 1up, Kotaku, Joystiq, and IGN have really bad media coverage.. the coverage is lackluster and not even timely (with the exception of the 'live' interviews which are generally rushed).
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#4 Paul_Phoenicks
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This isn't a gaming event. It's a business event. Besides, most of those sites have paid subscription services. It's probably them doing some business - if you want the "quality" stuff, pay for it.
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E3 is no longer the biggest show in gaming. It's more of a business and press thing now and a lot of game media is through magazines.
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E3 is no longer the biggest show in gaming. It's more of a business and press thing now and a lot of game media is through magazines.Tiefster

for an industry built on computer technology, this whole protecting the magazines, exclusives, etc. is an abomination. Mags need to die.

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#7 Kirlok
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E3 is no longer the biggest show in gaming. It's more of a business and press thing now and a lot of game media is through magazines.Tiefster

Not everything is lost though, there are still companies that care for gamers more than for money and show their titles instead of their atach rate etc.